CMLL (SUN) 03/16Arena México [CMLL, LuchaWorld, Yahoo! Deportes]
1) Leono & Metálico b Apocalipsis & Espanto Jr.Tecnicos took 2/3
2) Demus 3:16, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito b Astral, Eléctrico, ShockercitoRudos took 1/3. Warrior got away with a foul on Shockercito (after they both botched a plancha, not the first problem they had in the match.)
3) Blue Panther, Guerrero Maya Jr., Sagrado b Boby Zavala, Puma, TigerTecnicos took 2/3. Sagrado used a new strange finishing move to beat Tiger in a good match, best of the night.
4) Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Titán b Ephesto, Pólvora, Rey EscorpiónTecnicos took 2/3. A lot of Rey Escorpion/Atlantis feuding to set up the trios title.
5) Kráneo, Negro Casas, Niebla Roja b Marco Corleone, Máximo, RushRush fouled Casas for the DQ. Rush briefly went after Casas’ arm after the match. Both exchanged insults in post match promos.
6) Volador Jr. b RipperVolador, dressed as The Flash, won falls 1/3 clean, the last with a backcracer. Mostly their previous match. Crowd was not into this one much at all following the Rush/Casas stuff.

None of the H2L videos were shown during the show, except at the very start. Announcers pushed it hard all broadcast though.

The Negro Casas out of H2L situation is not working for anyone but me, a lot like last year’s Anniversary show. I don’t want a triangle match, I want Rush contra Shocker and then Rush contra Negro Casas in full length matches, just like I wanted to see Volador contra Sombra. That works for me. At the same time, the vast majority of people are totally confused as to why this triangle match isn’t happening while Negro Casas is selling no injury and appears to be 100%. CMLL has a reason why this is happening, but has not convinced many this is a valid reason. They’ve done a poor job of telling their own stories, as usual.

Stuka winning is a little bit of surprised; I’d guess that makes it less likely they’re going to do the Stuka/Rafaga mask match, because Rafaga can’t be losing twice in a row (unless he’s just retiring.)

Oficial AK-47 lost his hair to Tony Rivera in IWRG’s Golfo de Guerra. AK-47 only ended up in the final because he and Rivera screwed up trying to trap Terry in the cage and failed, then Tony won another hair match. AK-47 just lost his hair back in January.

CMLL on Terra mentioned the annual Arena Coliseo anniversary show would be on 04/06 (the same night as WWE’s WrestleMania, again.) They probably will run some match of significance. Shockercito and Pequeno Warrior are back facing each other, which should not count as a match of significance. Warrior’s apuesta matches, and there’s been quite a few, have not been good.

Virus singles match alert! Do that match instead. Fans of Sexy Team will be disappointed if the HD in Coliseo isn’t fixed next week. Tecnicos in match five should sweep the rudos, won’t.

Like this:

Blue Demon will be off tonight’s Rey de Reyes show, with the same unspecified family personal issues which kept him off the WWL shows last week. Demon revealed this in Saturday’s Metro newspaper. AAA hasn’t acknowledged this or explained what they’ll do with the Chessman versus Demon match for the Latin American Championship tonight.

(I guess this means Octagon is not a reliable source of scoops?)

Juventud Guerrera is also off the show; he says the doctors will not permit him to wrestle. AAA hasn’t mentioned this situation either. That makes the cage match 4 on 3, unless they just pull Fenix out of it to do a singles match with Chessman instead.

In other absence news, Mistico la Nueva Era shot down Sin Cara’s (deleted) Twitter message. Sin Cara had briefly alleged Mistico was pulled from the show for being drunk. Mistico responded on Facebook that he was never programmed for the show, the poster on the internet was an error, he doesn’t like the taste of alcohol and he was actually on the beach until 9:15. That’s a pretty good Friday night. and something I translated wrong.

I didn’t believe Sin Cara’s story, but I don’t actually believe this one either. “Typo on the internet” for a full week seems highly unlikely in general. Mistico wasn’t just on the poster, he was also on the preview of the card CMLL press department sent out and they always quietly sneak in any changes to card on that. (I’d guess the posters around the arena had Mistico listed, but I don’t know that for sure.) Mistico was scheduled for this card, he was pulled at some point, we may never know when/why.